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i .NMy reply not arriving as soon as he expected Gen. Paul
af' t another black officer with the same dispatche- in duplicate.
I. gave only a receipt to this officer, and sent him ba. k. Of
these three messengers two were black and the other white.
They werharreste-l, a I had anticipated; the two blacks wiro
asaassinated in violation of all jiutice and right, contrary to the
customs of war; thi-ir di-patl be~ were sent toGcen. Kerversean,
who concealed thlp first letter, and showed to Gen. Paul only
the second, in which I had ordered him to enter into negotia-
tions with Gen. Kerverseau. It was in consequence of this
letter that Santo Domingo was surrendered.
 Haring sent ntT these dispatr-hes, I resumed my route toward
 the South. I had hardly set Ilrward when I was overtaken by
 an orderly, coming up at full sperld, who hrouehlt me a package
 from Gen. Vernet and a lIeter from my wit', Lbth announcing
 to me the arrival from Paris of my twn children and their pre-
 ceptor, of which I was not be.bre aware. 1 learned also that
 they were bearers of orders fir me from the First Consul. I
 retraced my steps and flew to Eunnrry, where I found my two
 children and the excellent tutor whom the First Conqul had had
 the goodness to give them. I embraced them with the greatest
 Satisfaction and ardor. I then inquired it they were bearers of
 letters from lth First Consul for me. The tutor replied in the
 .affrmative, and handed me a letter which I opened and read
 -about half through; then I folded it, saying that I would
 reserve the reading of it Ibr a more quiet moment. I begged
 him then to impart to me the intentions of the Government, and
 to tell me the name of the commander of the squadron, which
 SI had not yet been able to ascertain. lie answered. that his
 -name was Leclerc; that the intention of the Government toward
 .me was ry favorable, which was confirmed by my children,
 and of whi h I alftrwards assured my.elf by finishing the letter
 of the First Conul. I observed to them, nevertheless,that if
 .the intentions of the Government were pacific: and good regard-
 Sing me and thos~t who had contributed to the happiness which
 the colony enijoed. Gen. Leclere surely had not followed nor